Kojagari or Kojagari Poornima
Kojagara or Kojagari is an important festival in some regions of India. Kojagari is celebrated to worship the Goddess of prosperity, Lakshmi. This festival is observed on the night of full moon in the month of Ashwina. “Kojagara “, literally means the night of awakening. It is also a festival of Goddess [...]
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Festivals, Information | No Comments
Sunday October 12 was a special day for Christians in India as one of them Sister Alphonsa was canonised and elevated to Saint by the Vatican.
The shadow of the anti-Christian violence on the ceremony didn’t dampen the celebrations for Kottayam where people worship her shrine.
The shrine has become the shrine of a saint. The burial [...]
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Information, Society | No Comments
Dr. B. R. AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY,AGRA University
Revised Date for B.Ed. Entrance Examination 2008 is Examination Date : 19-10-2008
Agra University B.Ed Entrance Examination Information slip. Candidate can collect their Admit Card from DAO (District Administration Office) of respective nodal center city on 16,17, 18 October 2008.
For Dr.B R Ambedkar University Results and notification visit http://dbrau.ac.in/result.asp dbrau results.
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October 13th, 2008 | Posted in Information, Results | No Comments
Columbus DAY 2008
Monday October 13 is Columbus Day, a federal holiday. The following public services will be affected:
•Schools: Chicago Public Schools will be closed. Most parochial and suburban schools also will be closed.
•Government offices: Federal, county and city offices will be closed.
•Postal service: No mail delivery.
•Courts: Federal, state and county courts will be closed, except [...]
October 13th, 2008 | Posted in Festivals, Information | No Comments
In countries like India, great maps and comprehensive local data are hard to come by. And traditional mapping approaches are stretched to the limit in such environments, where infrastructure and local businesses are evolving at a furious pace.
This need inspired us in Google India to design and build Google Map Maker, which enables users everywhere [...]
October 11th, 2008 | Posted in Google, Information | No Comments
Rednecks refers to a stereotype of usually rural, Caucasian (i.e. white) people of lower socio-economic status in the United States and Canada. Originally limited to the Appalachians, and later the South, the Ozarks, the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, this stereotype is now widespread throughout North America. Southern comedian Jeff Foxworthy defines “redneck” as [...]
October 10th, 2008 | Posted in US Elections | 1 Comment
Telecom giant Airtel is all set to launch thier Direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service. A senior company official announced this today. He said that the service will be available in 63 cities from 9th October.
Airtel on Tuesday announced the launch of its direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service.
“This is a right time for Airtel to enter [...]
October 7th, 2008 | Posted in Information, Society | No Comments
In this year Elections in America there have been interesting rise in the online videos to promote candidate, their spoofs etc. Also there have been boom among young people to register to vote online. This is a very important concept as this marks the change in Voting phenomena that had been existing till now. www.rockthevote.com [...]
October 7th, 2008 | Posted in Information, Society, US Elections | No Comments
Joint Management Entrance Test - JMET 2009
Organising Institute : Indian Institure of Technology Kanpur
Joint Management Entrance Test 2009 (JMET 2009) is the first step in the process of admission to the TWO YEAR FULL TIME Postgraduate Degree Programmes in Management offered by IITs for the academic year commencing July/August 2009
Currently IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Posted in Education, Information | No Comments
The state government employees are up in arms against the government over the issue of implementing the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations to hike their salaries. To register their protest, the employees carried out a huge rally in Ahmedabad on Sunday afternoon.
Other protest programmes such as going on a Mass Casual Leave and calling an indefinite [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Posted in Information, Pay Commission, Society | No Comments